Most folks I know aren’t shy about crunching into a nice red American lobster and dipping that white flaky meat in some molten butter, and who can blame them? But what if the lobster in question looked like this: Or THIS: What you are seeing is the (not very creatively named) shell disease of lobsters, . . . → Read More: The mystery of lobster shell disease
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By para_sight, on  October 23rd, 2012  3 comments  Fishing, Microbes, New Research  Bacteria, immunology, lobsters, shell disease By para_sight, on October 22nd, 2012 5 comments Adaptations, Carnivals & Link Love, New Research, Organisms Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish has a super blog post up about a beluga whale that was recorded mimicking the sounds of human speech. It concludes with the most excellent line that “to whales, humans sound like the Swedish chef”. Go check it out and, listen to the sound and then come back. I’ll wait….<whistles>…..back? OK . . . → Read More: Alaskan whales think we sound like Swedish chefs
By Dr. M, on October 16th, 2012 13 comments Expeditions, Life At Sea, New Research, Scientist!, The Basics, Vessels and Equipment budget, exploration, Funding, NASA, ocean, Science, submersible For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and I call for the creation of a NASA-style agency to ensure the future health of US ocean science and exploration. The Ghost of Ocean Science Future that We Want to . . . → Read More: We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.3
By Dr. M, on October 16th, 2012 4 comments Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, Life At Sea, New Research, Scientist!, The Basics, Vessels and Equipment budget, exploration, Funding, NASA, ocean, Science, submersible For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and I call for the creation of a NASA-style agency to ensure the future health of US ocean science and exploration. Over a decade ago, one of us (CM) made his . . . → Read More: We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.1
By Miriam Goldstein, on October 3rd, 2012 4 comments Expeditions, Plastic Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic pollution, Robert C. Seamans, Sea Education Association My tall-ship-sailing buddies at Sea Education Association are headed out for a special Pacific plastics cruise tomorrow aboard the 134-foot brigantine SSV Robert C. Seamans. (Disclosure: I am totally biased cause I’ve sailed with them twice and think it is the best thing ever. Also, they’re collecting samples for me on this cruise. Thanks . . . → Read More: Plastics expedition departs for North Pacific
By para_sight, on September 13th, 2012 3 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Aquarium, Chaurami Aquarium, Embryo, manta ray In a remarkable turnaround, Craig directed me to a very cool new study about manta rays (next thing you know I’ll be sending HIM papers about energy availability in the deep sea…). In it, the authors use the birth of a baby Manta alfredi in the Chaurami Aquarium in Japan to study these largest and . . . → Read More: Ever seen a manta ray’s bellybutton?
By Dr Bik, on September 13th, 2012 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, New Research economics, energy, genomics, integrated data, Metabolism, Microbes, recession, Temperature This might come as a shocker: I don’t care about metabolism (or bits of floating plastic, or whale sharks, or coral reefs…sorry Deeplings). Its not that I’m not interested – these fields are fascinating and scientifically important. But on a day-to-day basis, when I’m overloaded with data analysis, grant proposals, and a bursting inbox, I . . . → Read More: Capitalizing on recessions with economic booms of data
By Dr. Martini, on September 10th, 2012 4 comments Expeditions, Uncategorized ocean technology, physical oceanograpy The ocean is not homogenous. In other words, not all seawater is the same. Instead, it made up of many different water masses, each with unique characteristics. These water masses can be adjacent to each other, lay on top of each other like a delicious salty layer cake, or even in very special cases become . . . → Read More: Notes from the field: Mixology of Water Masses
By para_sight, on September 7th, 2012 One comment New Research, New Species, Organisms, Weird jellyfish, Scyphozoa This Friday comes the news that a new jellyfish has been named “City of gonads”. You can’t make this stuff up, except that somebody just did! I guess you have have really big, um, er, what’s the word? to do that… The City of Gonads jellyfish, click to go to the full story . . . → Read More: TGIF – City of Gonads
By para_sight, on September 6th, 2012 9 comments Cephalopods, Expeditions, Fish, Life At Sea, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Seamount fish, Michelle Staudinger, New England, Octopus, seamounts, squid I’m delighted to present this guest post from Dr. Michelle Staudinger, a post-doc at the University of Missouri Columbia and stationed at the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center in Reston Virginia. Michelle was a grad student at Stony Brook University while I was an Assistant Prof there another life ago. Thanks Michelle for . . . → Read More: Guest post: The stunning deep-water biodiversity of the Bear Seamount
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